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Posts: 1,361 | Thanked: 115 times | Joined on Oct 2005 @ Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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I'm 28 and amazed. I knew we had a diverse community here but never thought about the age gap.

I might be an odd duck, I started on a C64 when I was 3 and called quotes "quilts". ("load quilts star quilts comma 8 comma 1"). First PC was a 286 (with a mighty 80MB HDD) in the late 80s, and then a beastly 486 33/DX with 8MB RAM and a 212MB HDD in 1990 or 1991 (I forget, we could run Wing Commander at high detail). First Linux distro was slackware in ummm... 1994? 1995? Something around there.

I've had more than one grey haired coworker look over their glasses at me wide eyed when they needed to do something in DOS and I start spewing commands like I'd used them every say since the 80s.